A week ago, I wrote a little about the challenge of finding quality newsfeeds. As I wrote, I got an idea for a new newsfeed directory that would make that easier. Since then, I've dropped most of my other work, copied a bunch of code from my existing sites, twisted and bullied it and written...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "attain Bangkok". I see basketballs. I see tennis balls. I see buckyballs. The future becomes clear.

Grand Sport Group of Thailand has acquired ball making technology from Spalding, and is planning to begin manufacture of millions of tennis balls. This much you can learn without a...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "Tasmania plough". I see the Tasmanian devil. I see bugs. No, not bugs Bunny. The bugs are the Tasmanian devils. The future becomes clear.

New Zealand lettuce aphids have been found in Australia for the first time, on the island of Tasmania, and millions of dollars...
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Each format: RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom, Info Bite , etc. requires a certain set of elements and attributes. Why are certain elements required? Which should be required?

Some elements are required so that client and aggregator software can depend on being able to do certain things with feeds. For example, an Atom feed is...
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Should RSS, Atom, et al be aggregated by client or server software? Either way has its advantages and disadvantages.

Client:

• You don't have to be online while reading the feeds, as long as you've gone online to download them (though you'll need to go online to access things the feeds link to).

• Speed:...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "arrogant hermit". I see a sword. I see a stone. I see a bone. The future becomes clear.

Archaeologists hope to unearth the remains of medieval knight Galgano Guidotti, an arrogant and lustful knight who later became a hermit. A sword reputed to have been miraculously...
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Weblogs may have started out as personal babbling pages, and many still are, but more and more, weblogs are taking a mainstream news and communications role. This year's political campaigns have adopted weblogs as a way to reach a wider audience. People are getting paid for blogging. What is the future of weblogs as a...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "escalator duty". I see people going up. I see people going down. The future becomes clear.

The advent of well-maintained, air conditioned malls in India symbolizes a transformation underway. In-duty elevators and escalators, graffiti-free walls and no litter reflect the upward ride that the nation is...
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Well, I've updated the Info Bite List specification again, based partly on some of the issues mentioned at the end of a recent posting here. Today, I'll talk about the changes and why I made them as a round-about way of discussing issues facing all RSS-like formats.

First, I changed the default mode for content...
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The electronic crystal ball has shown me two words: "silent fuse". I see nothing. I see something. The future becomes clear.

French and Swiss astronomers claim to have found the most distant galaxy ever seen, 13.23 billion light years from earth. The light from this galaxy is said to have been emitted when the universe...
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